Reconciliation Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- dedication page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Acronyms -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The TRC and discourse? -- 1.2 Central proposition of this book -- 1.3 Theoretical framework -- 1.4 Some general remarks -- 2. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 2.1 How it all began -- 2.2 Formal aspects of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 2.3 The TRC ready for operation -- 2.3.1 The Human Rights Violations Committee -- 2.3.2 The Amnesty Committee -- 2.3.3 The Reparation and Rehabilitation Committee -- 2.4 The TRC as a favourable phenomenon -- 2.5 Negative critiques on the TRC -- 2.6 Language at the HRV hearings -- 2.7 Discourse at the HRV hearings -- 3. The TRC archive -- 3.1 The 'archive' as a concept -- 3.2 The material TRC archive -- 3.2.1 Primary data -- 3.2.2 Secondary data -- 3.3 The archive in a Foucaultian sense -- 3.4 Archontic power -- 3.5 A hierarchy of archons -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4. The sample -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Textual data -- 4.3 Audio-visual material -- 4.4 Translating and transcribing -- 4.5 My concrete selection -- 5. Layering and HRV discour -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Ideological layering -- 5.2.1 Trying to define ideology -- 5.2.2 Ideology through discourse -- 5.2.3 The TRC ideological master narrative -- 5.2.4 Feature One: Introducing reconciliation -- 5.2.5 Feature Two: Stressing national unity/community spirit -- 5.2.6 Feature Three: Respecting testifiers -- 5.2.7 Feature Four: Emphasising emotional discourse -- 5.3 Historical layering -- 5.3.1 Introduction -- 5.3.2 Feature Five: Apartheid-talk -- 5.3.3 Feature Six: Continuity between the past and the present -- 5.3.4 Feature Seven: Audience as actor -- 5.4 Identity layering -- 5.4.1 Introduction -- 5.4.2 Feature Eight: Struggling with an Afrikaner/white identity.

5.4.3 Feature Nine: Victim-perpetrator identity -- 5.4.4 Feature Ten: Pro-con ANC identity -- 5.5 The ideal testifier -- 5.5.1 Introduction -- 5.5.2 Mr. Gregory Beck -- 5.5.3 Discussion -- 5.6 Conclusion -- 6. Reconciliation discourse, truth and society -- 6.1 Reconciliation as a multidimensional term at the HRV hearings -- 6.1.1 Introduction -- 6.1.2 Constructing truth through discourse -- 6.1.3 The term 'reconciliation' at the TRC victim hearings -- 6.1.4 Ideal versus non-ideal testifiers -- 6.1.5 Accepting various interpretations of reconciliation -- 6.2 A multilayered reconciliation discourse in South African reality -- 6.2.1 Introduction -- 6.2.2 Reconciliation discourse pre-TRC -- 6.2.3 Reconciliation discourse after 1995 -- 6.2.4 Reconciliation discourse following the Mandela era -- 6.2.5 Reconciliation discourse outside politics -- 6.2.6 A multilayered reconciliation-oriented reality -- 7. Exercising power through discourse -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Power and discourse, the contex -- 7.3 The TRC exercised power at the HRV hearings -- 7.4 Power exertion yes, but … -- 7.5 The TRC and power in society -- 7.6 The historical setting of the TRC process -- 7.7 The TRC as a powerful state institution -- 7.8 The TRC as a political instrument? -- 7.9 TRC power and its impact on South African society -- 8. Towards a conclusion -- 8.1 In short: The main findings of this study -- 8.2 The researcher's perspective -- 8.2.1 Methodology -- 8.2.2 Evaluating the TRC? -- 8.2.3 Suggesting vs. concluding -- 8.3 The South African TRC and beyond -- References -- Index -- The series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture.